As it turns out, Digital Wellbeing is, at least for now, less of an Android Pie thing and more of a Pixel thing. Same goes for the new gesture-based navigation system, which is the default way of getting around on Google's latest flagship but not necessarily all Pie-powered phones. Furthermore, Night Sight mode takes a machine-learning based approach to auto white balance. It's often very difficult to determine the dominant light source in such dark environments, so Google has opted to use learning-based AWB to yield natural looking images. Final thoughts: simpler photography Some Pixel 3 XL users have reported random notches displaying on the side of their screen. [48] [49] According to computational lead Marc Levoy, "Where we used to compute stereo from the dual pixels, we now use a learning-based pipeline. It still utilizes the dual pixels, but it's not a conventional algorithm, it's learning based". Google essentially built a 'frankenphone' rig consisting of 5 Pixel 3 phones that could be fired simultaneously to build high quality depth maps from structure from motion and multi-view stereo. These 'ground truth' maps were used to train a neural network with depth maps generated from the single Pixel 3 phone in the middle of this rig. There were a number of advantages to this approach: the largely separated phones provided large baselines for more accurate depth estimation, less chance of occluded objects going undetected, and parallax in multiple directions allowed Google to avoid the aperture problem (where detail along the axis of stereo disparity essentially has no measured disparity). While solutions do exist for combining multiple Raws from traditional cameras with alignment into a single output DNG, having an integrated solution in a smartphone that takes advantage of Google's frankly class-leading tile-based align and merge - with no ghosting artifacts even with moving objects in the frame - is incredibly exciting. This feature should prove highly beneficial to enthusiast photographers. And what's more - Raws are automatically uploaded to Google Photos, so you don't have to worry about transferring them as you do with traditional cameras. 3. Synthetic Fill Flash

IP68 water and dust resistant for 1.5 metres for up to 30 minutes. So if you are prone to accidentally splashing your phone then this is great for you. Night Sight: Seeing in the Dark on Pixel Phones". Google AI Blog. November 14, 2018 . Retrieved January 28, 2019. You can also sell your old phone with us, if you are upgrading your device to a refurbished Google Pixel 3. Welch, Chris (November 14, 2018). "Google says a fix is coming for disappearing text messages on Pixel 3". The Verge . Retrieved November 26, 2018. A refurbished Google Pixel 3 also has a fantastic camera, and if you find yourself regularly snapping photos on your phone and want to up your game then this is a great option.Placing the phone on the Google Pixel Stand breaks ambient notifications. [60] Google has also already patched this. [58]

See Better and Further with Super Res Zoom on the Pixel 3". Google AI Blog. October 15, 2018 . Retrieved January 28, 2019. The Google Pixel 3 offers a great set of camera features that takes amazing photos. It has a 12MP camera on the rear, and two 8MP camera lenses on the selfie camera. Features include dual LED flash, auto HDR, panorama and 4K video recording. A Pixel 3 camera bug kills the phone's greatest asset if you launch it through third-party apps". The Verge. November 20, 2018 . Retrieved November 26, 2018.

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Perhaps it's because of the way Google optimized things, but this is yet another case where numbers alone don't tell the whole story. Our real-world video-encoding test illustrated as much, with the Pixel 3 converting a short 4K clip to 1080p in 2 minutes and 53 seconds — nearly a whole minute faster than the OnePlus 6, yet an eternity compared to the iPhone XS' 39 seconds. The Pixel 3 didn't take quite the same drubbing in 3DMark's Sling Shot Extreme OpenGL ES 3.1 test, on which its 4,400 points edged out the iPhone XS's score of 4,244. Here, the OnePlus 6 took the lead, with a score of 5,124, though I noticed no appreciable difference playing PUBG Mobile on Google's hardware. Several reviewers, including Dieter Bohn from The Verge, Mark Spoonauer from Tom's Hardware, and Julian Chokkattu from Digital Trends, stated that the Pixel 3's camera was "the best camera you could get on a smartphone." [33] [34] Digital Trends concluded the Pixel 3 XL had the best output, qualitatively, after comparing its camera output with other leading smartphones, including the Apple iPhone XS Max, Samsung Galaxy Note 9, and the Google Pixel 2 XL. [35] American technology reviewer Marques Brownlee in his Smartphone Awards video in December, 2018 said that the Pixel 3 & 3 XL have the best cameras of all smartphones. [36] Astrophotography - Google updated the Pixel 3 with an improved Night Sight featuring an astrophotography mode [24]